Baillie Gifford Prize

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Baillie Gifford Prize
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Awarded forNon-fiction writing
Date1999;25 years ago (1999)
CountryUnited Kingdom
Formerly calledSamuel Johnson Prize
Reward(s)£50,000
Currently held by Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
Website thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British book prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language. It was founded in 1999 following the demise of the NCR Book Award. With its motto "All the best stories are true", the prize covers current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography, autobiography and the arts. The competition is open to authors of any nationality whose work is published in the UK in English. [1] The longlist, shortlist and winner is chosen by a panel of independent judges, which changes every year. Formerly named after English author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, the award was renamed in 2015 after Baillie Gifford, an investment management firm and the primary sponsor. Since 2016, the annual dinner and awards ceremony has been sponsored by the Blavatnik Family Foundation.

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The prize is governed by the Board of Directors of The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction Limited, a not-for-profit company. Since 2018, the Chair of the Board has been Sir Peter Bazalgette, who succeeded Stuart Proffitt, the chair since 1999. In 2015, Toby Mundy was appointed as the Prize's first director. [2]

History

Prior to the establishment of the Samuel Johnson Prize, Britain's premier literary award for non-fiction was the NCR Book Award, which had been established in 1987. [3] In 1997, the NCR Award experienced a scandal when it was revealed the judges, many of them chosen for their popularity rather than literary qualities, had used "ghost readers" and were not expected to read the books they voted on. [4] Because of this and other problems the award ceased operations. [4] In response, one of the previous winners of NCR Award, the historian Peter Hennessy, approached Stuart Proffitt, a Publishing Director at Penguin Press, with the idea for a new award. An anonymous benefactor was found who funded the establishment of the Prize, [3] which was named after the English 18th-century author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson.

From its inception until 2001, the prize was independently financed by the founding benefactor. [3] In 2002, it was taken over by the BBC and re-named the BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize and managed by BBC Four. [3] In 2009, the name was amended to the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction [5] and managed by BBC Two. The new name reflected the BBC's commitment to broadcasting coverage of the Prize on the BBC2 programme, The Culture Show . [5] In 2016, the name was changed to the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, after its new primary sponsor, the Edinburgh-based investment management company Baillie Gifford. [6]

Prior to the 2009 name change, the winner received £ 30,000, and each finalist received £ 2,500. After 2009, the award was £ 20,000 for the winner, and each finalist received £ 1,000. [5] In February 2012, the steering committee for the prize announced that a new sponsor had been found for the prize, an anonymous philanthropist, enabling the prize money to be raised to £ 25,000. [7] In 2015, funding for the prize was arranged by the Blavatnik Family Foundation, while the organisers sought new primary sponsors from 2016 onwards. [8]

In 2016, under new sponsors Baillie Gifford, the prize money was restored to £ 30,000 for the winner.

In 2019, following the announcement that Baillie Gifford will sponsor the award until at least 2026, the prize money was increased to £50,000. [9]

It is widely recognised as the UK's most prestigious award for non-fiction authors. [10]

Winners and shortlists

1990s

1990s Baillie Gifford Prize winners and shortlists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1999 [a] Antony Beevor Stalingrad Won [11]
Ian Kershaw Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris (about Adolf Hitler)Shortlisted [12]
Ann Wroe Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man (about Pontius Pilate)Shortlisted [12]
John Diamond C: Because Cowards Get Cancer TooShortlisted [12]
Richard Holmes Coleridge: Darker Reflections (about Samuel Taylor Coleridge)Shortlisted [12]
David Landes The Wealth and Poverty of Nations Shortlisted [12]

2000s

2000s Baillie Gifford Prize winners and shortlists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2000 [b] David Cairns Berlioz: Volume 2Won [11]
Tony Hawks Playing the Moldovans at TennisShortlisted [13]
Brenda Maddox Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W. B. Yeats (about W. B. Yeats)Shortlisted [13]
Matt Ridley Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters Shortlisted [13]
William Shawcross Deliver us from Evil: Warlords, Peacekeepers and a World of Endless ConflictShortlisted [13]
Francis Wheen Karl Marx (about Karl Marx)Shortlisted [13]
2001 [c] Michael Burleigh The Third Reich: A New HistoryWon [11]
Richard Fortey Trilobite!: Eyewitness to EvolutionShortlisted [14]
Catherine Merridale Night of Stone: Death and Memory in RussiaShortlisted [14]
Graham Robb Rimbaud (about Arthur Rimbaud)Shortlisted [14]
Simon Sebag Montefiore Prince of Princes: The Life of Potemkin (about Grigory Potemkin)Shortlisted [14]
Robert Skidelsky John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain, 1937–1946 (about John Maynard Keynes)Shortlisted [14]
2002 [d] Margaret MacMillan Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War Won [11]
Eamon Duffy The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English VillageShortlisted [15]
William Fiennes The Snow GeeseShortlisted [15]
Richard Hamblyn The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the SkiesShortlisted [15]
Roy Jenkins Churchill: a Biography (about Winston Churchill)Shortlisted [15]
Brendan Simms Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of BosniaShortlisted [15]
2003 [e] T. J. Binyon Pushkin: A Biography (about Alexander Pushkin)Won [11]
Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of RussiaShortlisted [16]
Aminatta Forna The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir of her Father, her Family, her Country and a Continent Shortlisted [16]
Olivia Judson Dr Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex Shortlisted [16]
Claire Tomalin Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self Shortlisted [16]
Edgar Vincent Nelson: Love and Fame (about Lord Nelson)Shortlisted [16]
2004 [f] Anna Funder Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall Won [11]
Anne Applebaum Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps Shortlisted [17]
Jonathan Bate John Clare: A Biography (about John Clare)Shortlisted [17]
Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything Shortlisted [17]
Aidan Hartley The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir of Love and WarShortlisted [17]
Tom Holland Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic Shortlisted [17]
2005 [g] Jonathan Coe Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B. S. Johnson (about B. S. Johnson)Won [11]
Alexander Masters Stuart: A Life Backwards Shortlisted [18]
Suketu Mehta Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Shortlisted [18]
Orhan Pamuk Istanbul: Memories and the City Shortlisted [18]
Hilary Spurling Matisse the Master: The Conquest of Colour 1909–1954 (about Henri Matisse)Shortlisted [18]
Sarah Wise The Italian Boy: Murder and Grave-Robbery in 1830s LondonShortlisted [18]
2006 [h] James S. Shapiro 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare Won [11]
Alan Bennett Untold StoriesShortlisted [19]
Jerry Brotton The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and His Art CollectionShortlisted [19]
Carmen Callil Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family & FatherlandShortlisted [19]
Tony Judt Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 Shortlisted [19]
Tom Reiss The Orientalist: In Search of a Man Caught Between East and WestShortlisted [19]
2007 [i] Rajiv Chandrasekaran Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone Won [20]
Ian Buruma Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance Shortlisted [21]
Peter Hennessy Having It So Good: Britain in the FiftiesShortlisted [21]
Georgina Howell Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell (about Gertrude Bell)Shortlisted [21]
Dominic Streatfeild Brainwash: The Secret History of Mind Control Shortlisted [21]
Adrian Tinniswood The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century EnglandShortlisted [21]
2008 [j] Kate Summerscale The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill HouseWon [22]
Tim Butcher Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart Shortlisted [23]
Mark Cocker Crow CountryShortlisted [23]
Orlando Figes The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia Shortlisted [23]
Patrick French The World Is What It Is: The Authorised Biography of VS Naipaul (about V. S. Naipaul)Shortlisted [23]
Alex Ross The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyShortlisted [23]
2009 [k] Philip Hoare Leviathan or, The WhaleWon [24] [25]
Liaquat Ahamed Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World Shortlisted [26]
Ben Goldacre Bad Science Shortlisted [26]
David Grann The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Shortlisted [26]
Richard Holmes The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Shortlisted [26]
Manjit Kumar Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality Shortlisted [26]

2010s

2010s Baillie Gifford Prize winner and shortlist
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2010 [l] Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea Won [27]
Alex Bellos Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of MathematicsShortlisted [28]
Luke Jennings Blood Knots: On Fathers, Friendship and FishingShortlisted [28]
Andrew Ross Sorkin Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves Shortlisted [28]
Jenny Uglow A Gambling Man: Charles II and the RestorationShortlisted [28]
Richard Wrangham Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human Shortlisted [28]
2011 [m] Frank Dikötter Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 Won [29]
Andrew Graham-Dixon Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (biography of Caravaggio)Shortlisted [30]
Maya Jasanoff Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World Shortlisted [30]
Matt Ridley The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Shortlisted [30]
Jonathan Steinberg Bismarck: A Life (biography of Otto von Bismarck)Shortlisted [30]
John StubbsReprobates: The Cavaliers of the English Civil WarShortlisted [30]
2012 [n] Wade Davis Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of EverestWon [31]
Katherine Boo Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum Shortlisted [32]
Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways: A Journey on FootShortlisted [32]
Steven Pinker The Better Angels of our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity Shortlisted [32]
Paul Preston The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century SpainShortlisted [32]
Sue Prideaux Strindberg: A Life (about August Strindberg)Shortlisted [32]
2013 [o] Lucy Hughes-Hallett The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War Won [33]
David Crane Empires of the Dead: How One Man's Vision led to the Creation of WWI's World GravesShortlisted [34]
William Dalrymple Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan Shortlisted [34]
Dave Goulson A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with BumblebeesShortlisted [34]
Charlotte Higgins Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman BritainShortlisted [34]
Charles Moore Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography Shortlisted [34]
2014 [p] Helen Macdonald H Is for Hawk Won [35] [36]
John Campbell Roy Jenkins: A Biography (about Roy Jenkins)Shortlisted [37]
Marion Coutts The Iceberg: A MemoirShortlisted [37]
Greg Grandin The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New WorldShortlisted [37]
Alison Light Common People: The History of an English FamilyShortlisted [37]
Caroline Moorehead Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France Shortlisted [37]
2015 [q] Steve Silberman NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently Won [38]
Jonathan Bate Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life (about Ted Hughes)Shortlisted [39]
Robert Macfarlane LandmarksShortlisted [39]
Laurence ScottThe Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital WorldShortlisted [39]
Emma Sky The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in IraqShortlisted [39]
Samanth Subramanian This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil WarShortlisted [39]
2016 [r] Philippe Sands East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Won [40]
Svetlana Alexievich Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets Shortlisted [41] [42]
Margo Jefferson Negroland: A Memoir Shortlisted [41] [42]
Hisham Matar The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between Shortlisted [41] [42]
2017 [s] David France How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS Won [43] [44]
Christopher de Bellaigue The Islamic Enlightenment The Modern Struggle Between Faith and ReasonShortlisted [45] [46]
Kapka Kassabova Border: A Journey to he Edge of EuropeShortlisted [45] [46]
Daniel Mendelsohn An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an EpicShortlisted [45] [46]
Mark O'Connell To Be a Machine: Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death Shortlisted [45] [46]
Simon Schama Belonging: The Story of the Jews, 1492–1900 Shortlisted [45] [46]
2018 [t] Serhii Plokhy Chernobyl: History of a TragedyWon [47] [48]
Hannah Fry Hello World: How to Be Human in the Age of the MachineShortlisted [49]
Ben Macintyre The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold WarShortlisted [49]
Thomas Page McBee Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man Shortlisted [49]
Stephen R. Platt Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age Shortlisted [49]
Carl Zimmer She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of HeredityShortlisted [49]
2019 [u] Hallie Rubenhold The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper Won [50] [51]
Casey Cep Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper LeeShortlisted [52] [53]
Laura Cumming On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing PersonsShortlisted [52] [53]
William Feaver The Lives of Lucian Freud: Youth (about Lucian Freud)Shortlisted [52] [53]
Julia Lovell Maoism: A Global HistoryShortlisted [52] [53]
Azadeh Moaveni Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISISShortlisted [52] [53]

2020s

2020s Baillie Gifford Prize winner and shortlist
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
2020 [v] Craig Brown One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time Won
Matthew Cobb The Idea of the Brain: A HistoryShortlisted [54] [55] [56]
Sudhir Hazareesingh Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint LouvertureShortlisted [54] [55] [56]
Christina Lamb Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to WomenShortlisted [54] [55] [56]
Amy Stanley Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World Shortlisted [54] [55] [56]
Kate Summerscale The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story Shortlisted [54] [55] [56]
2021 [w] Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Won [57] [58] [59]
Cal Flyn Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human LandscapeShortlisted [60] [61]
Harald Jähner Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 Shortlisted [60] [61]
Kei Miller Things I Have WithheldShortlisted [60] [61]
John Preston Fall: The Mystery of Robert Maxwell (about Robert Maxwell)Shortlisted [60] [61]
Lea Ypi Free: Coming of Age at the End of History Shortlisted [60] [61]
2022 [x] Katherine Rundell Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne (about John Donne)Won [62] [63] [64]
Caroline Elkins Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire Shortlisted [65] [66] [67]
Jonathan Freedland The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the WorldShortlisted [65] [66] [67]
Sally Hayden My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration RouteShortlisted [65] [66] [67]
Anna Keay The Restless Republic: Britain Without a CrownShortlisted [65] [66] [67]
Polly Morland A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story Shortlisted [65] [66] [67]
2023 [y] John Vaillant Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World Won [68] [69] [70]
Hannah Barnes Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children Shortlisted [68]
Tania BraniganRed Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cultural Revolution,Shortlisted [68]
Christopher Clark Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849 Shortlisted [68]
Jeremy Eichler Time's Echo: The Second World War, The Holocaust, and The Music of RemembranceShortlisted [68]
Jennifer Homans Mr. B: George Balanchine's Twentieth CenturyShortlisted [68]
2024 [z] Rachel Clarke The Story of a HeartShortlisted [71] [72]
Richard Flanagan Question 7Shortlisted [71] [72]
Annie Jacobsen Nuclear War: A Scenario Shortlisted [71] [72]
Viet Thanh Nguyen A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, a History, a MemorialShortlisted [71] [72]
Sue Prideaux Wild Thing: A Life of Paul GauguinShortlisted [71] [72]
David Van Reybrouck Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World Shortlisted [71] [72]

25th Anniversary Winner of Winners Award

In 2023, marking the 25th anniversary of the prize, a one-off 'Winner of Winners' Award was announced. [73] The judging panel was chaired by Jason Cowley ( New Statesman editor-in-chief) and included Shahidha Bari (academic, critic and broadcaster), Sarah Churchwell (journalist, author and academic), and Frances Wilson (biographer and critic). [73]

AuthorTitleWin YearResultRef.
James S. Shapiro 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 2006Won [74] [75]
Craig Brown One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time 2020Shortlisted [76] [77]
Wade Davis Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest2012Shortlisted [76] [77]
Barbara Demick Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea 2010Shortlisted [76] [77]
Patrick Radden Keefe Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty 2021Shortlisted [76] [77]
Margaret MacMillan Peacemakers: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Its Attempt to End War 2002Shortlisted [76] [77]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ The 1999 judges were Cherie Booth, Orlando Figes, Kate Summerscale, James Naughtie.
  2. ↑ The 2000 judges were Stephen Fry, Timothy Garton Ash, Susan Greenfield, Baroness Helena Kennedy, Nigella Lawson.
  3. ↑ The 2001 judges were Niall Ferguson, Steve Jones, Annalena McAfee, Suzanna Taverne, Andrew Marr.
  4. ↑ 2002 was the first year as BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize. The 2002 judges were Richard Fortey, Caroline Gascoigne, Bonnie Greer, Robert Harris, David Dimbleby.
  5. ↑ The 2003 judges were Michael Portillo, Tim Radford, Andrew Roberts, Fiammetta Rocco, Rosie Boycott.
  6. ↑ The 2004 judges were Aminatta Forna, Martha Kearney, Simon Singh, Francis Wheen, Michael Wood.
  7. ↑ The 2005 judges were Marcus du Sautoy, Andrew Holgate, Maria Misra, John Simpson, Sue MacGregor.
  8. ↑ The 2006 judges were Robert Winston, Sir Richard Eyre, Pankaj Mishra, Cristina Odone, Michael Prodger.
  9. ↑ The 2007 judges were Helena Kennedy, Diana Athill, Jim Al-Khalili, Tristram Hunt, Mark Lawson.
  10. ↑ The 2008 judges were Claire Armitstead, Daljit Nagra, Chris Rapley, Hannah Rothschild, Rosie Boycott.
  11. ↑ 2009 was the first year as BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. The judges announced the winner of the prize at an awards event at King's Place, London on 30 June. The monetary prize for 2009 was £20,000 for the winner, and each finalist receives £1000. The 2009 judges were Mark Lythgoe, Tim Marlow, Munira Mirza, Sarah Sands, Jacob Weisberg.
  12. ↑ The 2010 judges were Evan Davis, Jan Dalley, Daniel Finkelstein, Roger Highfield, Stella Tillyard.
  13. ↑ The 2011 judges were David Goodhart, Sam Leith, Ben Macintyre, Brenda Maddox, Amanda Vickery.
  14. ↑ The 2012 judges were David Willetts, Patrick French, Paul Laity, Bronwen Maddox, Raymond Tallis. The 2012 monetary prize was £20,000 for the winner.
  15. ↑ The 2013 judging panel was chaired by cosmologist and Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow, accompanied by classical historian Mary Beard, director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti, historian Peter Hennessy and writer and critic James McConnachie.
  16. ↑ The 2014 judging panel was chaired by author and historian Claire Tomalin, accompanied by Alan Johnson MP, Financial Times Books Editor Lorien Kite, philosopher Ray Monk and historian Ruth Scurr.
  17. ↑ The 2015 judging panel was chaired by Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist Anne Applebaum, together with editor of Intelligent Life Emma Duncan, editor of New Scientist Sumit Paul-Choudhury, Director of China Centre at Oxford University Professor Rana Mitter and former Controller of Film and Drama and Head of Film 4 Tessa Ross.
  18. ↑ 2016 was the first year as Baillie Gifford Prize. The 2016 judging panel was chaired by former BBC Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders, together with Philip Ball, science writer and author; Jonathan Derbyshire, executive comment editor of the Financial Times ; Dr Sophie Ratcliffe, scholar, writer and literary critic and Rohan Silva, co-founder of the social enterprise Second Home.
  19. ↑ The 2017 judging panel was chaired by chaired by author and Chairman of ITV Sir Peter Bazalgette, together with Anjana Ahuja, science writer; Ian Bostridge, tenor and writer; Professor Sarah Churchwell, academic and writer and Razia Iqbal, journalist and broadcaster.
  20. ↑ The 2018 judging panel was chaired by The Economist's culture correspondent Fiammetta Rocco, with Stephen Bush, journalist and political commentator; Susan Brigden, historian; Anne-Marie Imafidon, mathematician and campaigner; and Nigel Warburton, philosopher.
  21. ↑ The 2019 judging panel was chaired by Times Literary Supplement editor Stig Abell, with Myriam François, TV producer and writer; Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, professor of English Literature; Frances Wilson, critic and biographer; Petina Gappah, writer and lawyer and Alexander Van Tulleken, doctor and TV presenter.
  22. ↑ The 2020 judging panel consisted of Martha Kearney (BBC Radio presenter), Shahidha Bari (writer and radio presenter), Simon Ings (writer and editor), Leo Robson (writer), Max Strasser (editor) and Bee Wilson (journalist and writer).
  23. ↑ The 2021 judging panel consisted of Andrew Holgate, Sara Collins, Helen Czerski, Kathryn Hughes, Johny Pitts and Dominic Sandbrook.
  24. ↑ The 2022 judges were Caroline Sanderson (chair), Laura Spinney, Rachel Cooke, Clive Myrie, Samanth Subramanian and Georgina Godwin
  25. ↑ The 2023 judges were Arifa Akbar, Andrew Haldane, Tanjil Rashid, Ruth Scurr, and Frederick Studemann (chair)
  26. ↑ The 2024 judges were Heather Brooke, Alison Flood, Peter Hoskin, Tomiwa Owolade, Chitra Ramaswamy, and Isabel Hilton (chair)

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